01-18-2011
My apologies.
As I said I am not familiar with Solaris in particular so I decided not to fool around with the machine I'm working on, but decided to clone the drives on a separate (unfortunately x86) machine. At that point I presumed it's possible, but still I had no Intel Solaris 8 (nor sparc invariant, though that wouldn't change anything). That's where I *thought* of running OpenSolaris (again I say I am -not- familiar with solaris), until I figured it is meant for x86 and it was using grub. It was just a note of what I -tought- and -tried-, and it did -not- work, so yes, let's get back to the topic, shall we?
Other than that, the single user mode should be the thing I needed (though I would still need to use the machine I'm cloning, instead of doing the process on a separate machine as I originally intended), though it's too late now. Other than that, thanks, since I presume that might be just what I needed.
Kind regards,
Johnny.
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
installgrub
installgrub(1M) System Administration Commands installgrub(1M)
NAME
installgrub - install GRUB in a disk partition or a floppy
SYNOPSIS
/sbin/installgrub [-fm] stage1 stage2 raw-device
DESCRIPTION
The installgrub command is an x86-only program. GRUB stands for GRand Unified Bootloader.
installgrub installs GRUB stage 1 and stage 2 files on the boot area of a disk partition. If you specify the -m option, installgrub
installs the stage 1 file on the master boot sector of the disk.
OPTIONS
The installgrub command accepts the following options:
-f Suppresses interaction when overwriting the master boot sector.
-m Installs GRUB stage1 on the master boot sector interactively. You must use this option if Solaris is installed on an extended parti-
tion.
OPERANDS
The installgrub command accepts the following operands:
stage1 The name of the GRUB stage 1 file.
stage2 The name of the GRUB stage 2 file.
raw-device The name of the device onto which GRUB code is to be installed. It must be a character device that is readable and writable.
For disk devices, specify the slice where the GRUB menu file is located. (For Solaris it is the root slice.) For a floppy
disk, it is /dev/rdiskette.
EXAMPLES
Example 1 Installing GRUB on a Hard Disk Slice
The following command installs GRUB on a system where the root slice is c0d0s0:
example# /sbin/installgrub /boot/grub/stage1
/boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0
Example 2 Installing GRUB on a Floppy
The following command installs GRUB on a formatted floppy:
example# mount -F pcfs /dev/diskette /mnt
# mkdir -p /mnt/boot/grub
# cp /boot/grub/* /mnt/boot/grub
# umount /mnt
# cd /boot/grub
# /sbin/installgrub stage1 stage2 /dev/rdiskette
FILES
/boot/grub Directory where GRUB files reside.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Uncommitted |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
boot(1M), fdisk(1M), fmthard(1M), kernel(1M), attributes(5)
WARNINGS
Installing GRUB on the master boot sector (-m option) overrides any boot manager currently installed on the machine. The system will always
boot the GRUB in the Solaris partition regardless of which fdisk partition is active.
SunOS 5.11 31 Oct 2008 installgrub(1M)